Calls for prison reform are rising after a spike in violence in correctional facilities in Mississippi. In the last 10 days, five inmates were killed in different state prisons.
Three inmates were murdered in three days at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, an all-male facility in Parchman, Mississippi known as Parchman Farm. Two inmates also escaped the facility last week amid a week of riots, but they have since been caught.
Inmates at Parchman Farm claim gangs run the place, CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports.
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Go watch the Netflix film, "Shot Caller". It is a chilling story of just how the biggest baddest run the show in American prisons and how it extends beyond the prison walls. Also, how, if you don't want to be a victim in prison, you must join a gang. At that point, you are still a victim, but of the gang. You do what you are told.
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